Three ideas 2018
could well do without :
1 No use reviving
Irish it's a dead language .
The truth is
that for the past more than two thousand
years there has never been a time when Irish was a dead language, it has
continued to be the living language of multitudes of people from long before the English language was put
together and up to the present ;
2 If we could
teach people to live together we could solve our problems
The truth is that
people in the northeast of Ireland are well able to integrate. Indeed they are
so successful at it - intermarrying, working together, living in the same
districts - that government and its supporters had to create pogroms on average
one every twelve years or so for a hundred years to split them apart again, so
as not to upset the voting pattern necessary for control.
3 Ireland cannot
afford the 9 billion a year to be united.
Economists must
work out our financial situation
efficiently. People said the same about
Malta and always say the same about any body of people who want to govern themselves - you can't afford it. Britain has profited
extremely well from our Irish border, much better than people on either side of
it - it got a huge tract of land that it
could freely roam - until the armed conflict restricted this -
as a military and naval base from which it could dominate the Atlantic and
allow NATO to do the same, it controlled our trade, commerce, import , export ,
surrounding seas , controlling enterprise so that it would not interfere with
enterprise in Britain. And much else
besides.
Logic suggests that
if 2018 is to proceed with honesty what
we need is not just nice people to govern us in the northeast of the island but freedom to govern ourselves efficiently in
the whole of the island. Others who had the same problem were told the same tale, you cannot afford it. In
the old days it was enough to say, You cannot do it, but now, having to admit
we can do it, the argument adjusts,
Yes, perhaps you could but you could not pay for it.
Will our political logicians
and economists help our discussions in 2018 ?
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